April Fool's Day jokes are no longer just stuck on April 1 – AMC TV in the United States recently issued a bold statement to adapt the Famous Chinese "Journey to the West" into a new kung fu drama "Badlands". The story follows the adventures of a great warrior and a young boy in search of Elysium. The first season consists of six episodes, one hour each, and will begin airing late next year or early 2016.
AMC TV, which has produced American dramas such as "The Walking Dead" and "Breaking Bad", is really a model of No Zuo No Die Why U Try! He actually set his sights on the heavenly dynasty classical masterpiece "Journey to the West". This is the first time that Journey to the West has been adapted into an American drama (main drama). Because the previous NBC-participated in the release of the movie "The Lost Empire" has also borrowed the story of "Journey to the West", but they are obviously closer to a spoof.
Badlands will be created by two superhuman producers, Miles Millar and Al Gough. In addition, Wu Yanzu, Feng Delun and Michael Shamberg, executive producer of "Django Rescued", will serve as producers together.
Two celestial male gods, wash your faces well, and prepare to accept the spit stars of the whole day before the 90s in two years! Don't you and US imperialism know the sacred status of the 86 CCTV version in the hearts of our ass people? It is estimated that the actors of the American drama are in place, the intention is profound, the stunts are realistic, and most people will not buy the drops!
However, although the 86 CCTV version of "Journey to the West" is a supreme classic drama, it is not the first Journey to the West TV series. Who did the first part? Next door neighbor islanders.
In 1978, Beijing Television (the predecessor of CCTV) broadcast the first color TV series of the Tianchao Dynasty, "Three Family Relatives". In Hong Kong in the south, ATV and WIRELESS are fighting each other, filming a series of martial arts romance dramas to bid farewell to each other. Whether it is a mainland television organization that is just starting out, or a Hong Kong colleague who is in full swing for commercialization, they can't take care of the night pearl of "Journey to the West". As a result, Neon got the lead, and the Japanese version of "Journey to the West" turned out to be a few years later, CCTV did not know whether it had eaten the guts of the ambitious leopard and bought this divine drama. There was a description of the tube: "It is estimated that it is the Spring Festival of 1982 or 83... I remember that the episode was "Three Dozen White Bone Essences", and an injured young woman asked Tang Monk to carry her on the mountain road, and this young woman gradually turned into a vicious rockery and suppressed Tang Monk. This stunt shot is so realistic that it leaves an indelible little shadow on my childhood! ”
Objectively speaking, the 78-day version of Journey to the West does have a profound impact on the whole of Asia, and it is also a strange drama with a huge brain hole. CCTV only broadcast 3 episodes before stopping - because the casting, plot and ideas of the two-dimensional people were simply incomprehensible to the Heavenly Dynasty people at that time. However, just three episodes prompted the Tv producers of the Heavenly Dynasty to go crazy and make a stronger blow, and a few years later, they produced their own "Journey to the West", which has since entered the annals of history.
Why is the neon version of the brain hole big? First of all, the casting is very thunderous: Tang Monk, Rulai and Silver Horn King are all crossed by women, and Guanyin and Red Child are all wrapped up by strong men. Among them, the most worthy of the big book is tang monk, who is played by Natsume Masako, the top goddess of the island at that time... stop! Guanyin sister is also counted, folk say that she is a male and female body. Tang Monk actually let a woman play, and this Tang Monk would not only cry "Goku save me", but also possess a special skill comparable to Athena - her Kiss can apprentice heal wounds and blind my Kryptonian dog eyes! It is said that he could not find a suitable male artist at that time, and he was in a hurry to ask for the goddess Natsume. Unexpectedly, as soon as people came out, they were very successful in the island country, and since then they have become the best spokesperson for the Japanese version of "Journey to the West", and they have fallen into the "strange circle" that Japanese Tang monks must be played by women.
In addition, the appearance of the apprentices is also powerless: the sand monk is a kappa. Pig Eight Rings looks really handsome. And Sun Wukong - "When I saw Sun Wukong jump out of the stone, tm was completely killed!" What kind of monkey was that, it was a standard gorilla... And he doesn't use a golden hoop stick! He makes a sword! The Celestial Cylinder choked up wordlessly more than once.
However, in addition to the above brain holes, people also have a lot of merit. Especially compared with the newly filmed domestic Journey to the West, people are absolutely normal + orthodox, and didi also filmed for the heavenly dynasty - this was really difficult at that time, and after broadcasting, it also triggered the "Chinese tourism fever".
It is estimated that the 86 CCTV version crew has carefully studied the 78 version of the island country, because there are many scenes and plots, and the latter has done a lot of reference. In other words, it is estimated that it will be plagiarized by some well-known scolds: what water curtain cave, peach orchard, the skeleton Buddha beads worn by the sand monk when he first appeared, Sun Monkey made a big fuss about the peach orchard and the bridge section under the five elements mountain, which is almost the same.
Just as the Celestial Dynasty people began to watch and curse the island version of the journey to the west, and began to wonder what "entertainment" was, Westerners celebrated the birth of a special baby - the child named Louise Brown, born in Oheim, England, the world's first "test tube baby". Her dad and mommy worked hard for 9 years, unable to conceive naturally, so they begged grandpa and grandma everywhere, and finally found doctors Patrick Stepto and Robert S. Thompson. G. Edwards (Big gasp!) The name is quite long). The two are really bold, knowing that the "in vitro artificial insemination" they studied is still in the experimental stage, and still take over the porcelain work, and they actually succeeded. Louise Brown was born by caesarean section, underweight but fairly healthy. Not long after, she had another sister who was also born in IVF.
IVF is created by in vitro artificial insemination, which is referred to simply as "artificial insemination" or "IVF technique". "Artificial insemination" is to take out the eggs and sperm in the human body and combine them under human interference (that is, in a test tube). The binding process is only 2-6 days, and once the embryo is successfully cultured, it is immediately returned to the uterus - because with current technology, it is not yet possible to grow the embryo in vitro to term. In the Tianchao folk, we often directly call "in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer" "IVF". In fact, the former is a skill, the latter is a baby!
However, artificial insemination still benefits countless couples, such as tubal obstruction or male infertility, which can be used to achieve success in one fell swoop. Because, in addition to the shortcomings mentioned earlier, they are very mature and have become the most popular method of assisted conception at present, because the probability of multiple births is as high as 25-30%.
However, it is still not a panacea, because the chance of ectopic pregnancy is 5%, and the miscarriage rate is about 20-25%. Therefore, the couples who "hit the nail on the head" are not the majority. But for some couples, it is simply not possible to get pregnant without IVF. There was a couple in Israel who did it eight times before getting pregnant (the wife estimated to have 8 small holes in her stomach, which was so tragic!). ）。 According to the National Disease Control Agency, in 1997, the average success rate of giving birth to IVF in the United States was about 35%, while in the same year, some fertility centers in Taiwan were more bullish, with a success rate of 50-60%.
In 1978, the West cheered for a baby, and the Heavenly Dynasty stirred up a dark tide for any small matter. At this moment when crisis and opportunity coexisted, an imported car, with the low-key posture of "quietly dripping into the village, shooting guns and dripping do not", quickly spread throughout the north of the Heavenly Dynasty. It is Polonez.
At that time, the land transportation of the entire Heavenly Dynasty, in addition to trains and bicycles, was the big bus with square head, the domineering Dongfeng Liberation truck, the army green 212 off-road vehicle and the sedan with head and tail. As a rare hatchback at that time, this little guy without an ass immediately captured the small heart of the Chinese people as soon as it appeared.
Within a few years, it quickly became the favorite of individual taxi drivers in the north - because it was born from the Fiat 125P, the engine, chassis and main mechanical components were very reliable, not to mention the three words "imported car" and the heartwarming price. In the later stage, Polonez also took advantage of the situation to put out sedans and pickups, which was really overwhelming.
Then again, the interpretation of "Polonez" is actually quite romantic, it is derived from the 16th century Polish folk song and dance, that is, the three beats of moderate speed. It was born in the FSO factory in Poland (FSO in Polish for Fabryka Samochodow Osobowych, don't ask me how to read it!). Meaning "passenger car factory"). This is a large polish car factory established in 1951. The first product was a Warsaw brand car developed with Soviet Gass M20 technology. The Paranez, on the other hand, is a Bosnian-Italian hybrid born of FSO and Fiat based on 125P and 126P platforms – hence its brand title of Poiski Fiat.
However, with the exception of The Polonez, which sold out in China, the FSO factory is a really ill-fated model, especially after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and the upheavals in Eastern Europe, when state-owned companies began to privatize or seek international cooperation, and the FSO chose the latter and began to crash out of the way everywhere like a fly without a head – first found GM. It didn't take long for the first mother, Sang, to sell it to Daewoo, South Korea, making it once known as Daewoo-Fso. During those years when he was an illegitimate child and a stepson, FSO could only make ends meet for GM and Daewoo assembling Opel and some Korean cars. In 2000, Daewoo went bankrupt, the Smecta factory was acquired by GM, and poor Daewoo-Fso was spat out by the Yankees and abandoned. So the Poles gritted their teeth and changed their name back to the original FSO and began to talk about cooperation with the British MG Rover. But the fate of the latter... Everyone knows, it's really called bad luck! The key moment was the Eastern European brothers, and the Ukrainian UkrAVTO Automobile Company pulled it and became the largest shareholder of FSO. In 2005, GM realized that it seemed to have spit out a piece of fat meat, and began negotiations with UkhrAVTO and FSO to take some of Daewoo's models to Eastern Europe for assembly and production. However, this time it is not so easy!
However, although the mother factory was bought and bought like a black slave, Polonez was still quite arrogant - compared with several sacred cars such as Santana, Shali, Alto, Grand Cherokee and Audi 100 that entered the Heavenly Dynasty later, Xiao Meng Car insisted on taking the import route, 24 years unshakable, all the way to 2002, completely glorified in the Heavenly Dynasty. And its significance to the Heavenly Dynasty is not how advanced and comfortable it is, but to make the general public truly feel that car life is actually not far from us.
The Celestial Dynasty at the end of the 1970s was really hard to describe. If Polonez's attack in the Heavenly Dynasty was like boiling frogs in warm water, slowly heating up the entire market; then Pierre Cardin was a thunderbolt, shocking the sensitive nerves of the Chinese people and awakening everyone's normal aesthetic concepts in an instant - this has to start with a 1978 photo.
The content of the photo now seems to be a street shot: an old foreign handsome man wearing a wool black coat, walking in the streets of the capital with his hands in bags, and in front of him on the left is an elderly farmer, carrying a crumpled leather bag, wearing a military hat, wearing a cotton jacket, and looking curiously at the foreigners on the side - this is undoubtedly the best match. And the protagonist, the street shoot master, is Pierre Cardin, who was called the "French Tailor" by the Celestial Dynasty. He chose to come to the Heavenly Dynasty at this moment, and it is estimated that he had studied the yellow calendar fiercely. He fully felt the material and spiritual scarcity of the country and was anxious for a "great emancipation of the mind."
The visit in 1978 was only the first small lightning bolt that broke the sky, but it was enough to make the French tailor ecstatic. In April of the following year, the costume performance he brought was a real thunder and lightning.
This is an "internal observation" that is limited to officials in the foreign trade and clothing circles. A catwalk was temporarily set up at the Beijing National Culture Palace, and 12 foreign models walked cat steps to the accompaniment of pop music, naturally and casually. They are both men and women, shoulder to shoulder with each other, eyebrows. There was a blonde beauty who lifted the placket of her long skirt when she was still happy, revealing a beautiful little inner. In other words, there are already ten eight shots shooting at some parts. then...... The blue-gray uniforms in the audience, however, leaned back as if they were hiding from a nearby plague. Their gesture is a subtext: "I'll go!" They are simply the great poisonous weeds of the bourgeoisie! ”
However, compared to the backstage locker room, all this is not a matter of time in front of the stage - the Celestial Dynasty people found that the models were both male and female, so they pulled out a large piece of cloth and divided the room in two, but Pierre Cardin stubbornly wanted to remove the cloth: "We have always been male and female models changing clothes in the same room, which is not inconvenient." As a costume designer, know the shape of a model like a surgeon! The receptionist was dumbfounded, the two sides were deadlocked for a while, and finally the "French tailor" won, but this incident became an internal "secret that must not be said.".
There is a price for releasing thunder at the Celestial Dynasty! At that time, the "Reference News" published a comment by the Hong Kong media: Chinese people can't even wear clothes, what fashion shows do they watch!? Between the lines. It was revealed that many officials were not interested in fashion shows. As soon as this article came out, the "French tailor" immediately experienced the cold of the world - the subsequent trip to the magic capital not only greatly reduced the reception specifications, but also greatly reduced the number of performances and the number of spectators.
However, Pierre Cardin did not feel unhappy at all, and he has always felt very proud of the Beijing catwalk show. Because of the preconceived brand effect, he has been the most extreme embodiment - from 1978 to 1994, this "tailor" has been more than 20 times. His name is well known to everyone, women and children, becoming a Frenchman with a reputation far above the French president, becoming the first international brand known to the people of the Heavenly Dynasty, and becoming synonymous with luxury consumption in that year.
1978, for the West, for 10 years ago, 1968, was really normal — there were no major wars or political events around the world, although the Cold War continued. For the Heavenly Dynasty, this year is undoubtedly a year of recovery, and various elements of the modern economy have begun to be activated and revived one by one.